of $9.4 million up eight per cent from the previous year. The Company attributed the improved earnings to exchange benefits on sales to the United States following devaluation of the dollar. * oe * CANADA’S FAR NORTHWEST has been split in half to make two giant new territories. The Northwest Territories council decided on the makeup of the new Mackenzie territory and the territory to be made up of the remaining portion of the Northwest Territories. The latter section has not yet been named. The new territories come into being in 1964. # x & THE AMERICAN National Labour Relations Board has ordered a Com- pany to give back pay amounting to $100,712 to eleven former employees fired for union activity. The union had fought the case for the dismissed men for thirteen years. % * k A NEW AFRICAN Trade Union Confederation, members of which are free to join or not to join any worldwide labour body, has been formed by representatives of the labour movement of 20 African nations and eight terri- tories meeting in Dakar, Senegal. a bd bo LIVING COSTS in four of 12 Canadian cities under survey rose between November and December, the bureau of statistics reported. Costs dropped in five and were unchanged in three. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Montreal, Cal- gary and Edmonton all showed increases. x * * PROSPECTS for a little cheaper pork are in sight with latest figures on the Canadian hog population. Figures up to December 1 show 5,674,000 head or an increase of three per cent over a year. Eastern farmers had fewer on hand but the west was up by nine per cent at 2,611,000. * * * LOANS by the industrial development bank for the period October to December total $22,248,000 or 82 per cent more than a year earlier. There were 472 loans compared with 236—indicating the government’s desire to pump more capital into the economy to help shake off the clinging effects of the recession. * a * CANADIAN CONSUMER debt totalled $3,824,000,000 at the end of last October or .6 per cent more than a month earlier, the bureau of statistics reported. The gain over a full year was more than seven per cent. * a * BUSINESS FAILURES—one sign of the nation’s economic health—eased up in the third quarter of 1961—to 578 or a reduction of 12.2 per cent from the corresponding figure a year earlier. * * * THE SALES of farm machinery and parts were an estimated $236,594,550 in 1961 or a decrease of 8.6 per cent. The significant declines, inspired by drought, were drops of 28 per cent in Manitoba and 31 per cent in Saskatche- Your Time Is Needed To Prevent A War “PEOPLE DEVOTE FULL TIME to planning, building, sweeping, cleaning, carrying, cooking, directing or playing. They give full time to food, animals, papers, machines, human problems. And they are certainly giving full time to fashioning the enormously efficient weapons that will be used if the peace should fail. But where is the man who is giving full time to the making of a workable peace? If the War Against Man should occur, it will not come about because it was inevitable. It will come about because not enough people took trouble to avert it.” Norman Cousins, Editor, Saturday Review. No Talks Hurting Docs. The doctors in Saskatchewan, who refused to be consulted about the medical care plan, are now com- Recorder Complete System plaining. 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When he was Labour Minister of Health in the U.K. he heard the same kind of noises, but went ahead patiently developing the National Health Service. Today the overwhelming majority of British doctors favour the prin- ciple of medical care. P.S. They're the highest paid group in the United Kingdom. Unemployment Jumps Unemployment rose to 413,000 Canadians in December, accord- ing to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This represents 6.4 per cent of the labour force. Although lower than a year earlier, the figure was a substan- tial jump over November and with four months to go before unemployment hits its peak, economists are again worried. Timber Barons’ Paradise Want to be an Ontario timber baron? Well here’s how you do it... . Get hold of the local Tory M.P.P. Promise to deliver him a chunk of yotes (and some cam- paign contributions) and he'll look after it for you. Of course, it’s even easier if you're a PC cabinet minister, like the late Jim Maloney. But if you are the president of the local PC riding organization, like John Conway of Barry's Bay, you still stand a chance. Mind you, you had better hurry. If the present trends con- tinue, there won’t be many Tory M.P.P.’s left in Ontario in a year or so. IWA REGIONAL SECRETARY-TREASURER, Fred Fieber speaking at the Anaual Meeting of Local 1-424, 1.W.A., Prince George, January 20. Seated on the left is Jack Holst, Local 1-424 President, and on the right is Local Financial Secre- tary, Howard Webb. In his address the Secretary-Treasurer complimented the Local Union on the effective and efficient manner in which they were taking care of their organizational and administrative problems. This he pointed out was extremely important to the Regional Council who have the responsibility of co- ordinating the efforts of the Local Unions. application of Health and Welfare coverage on the Coast and the possib’ In his talk he also explained the extension of these provisions into the Interior of the Province, Pw ‘a NU By FRANK HOWARD, M.-P. "Goodies Removed From Moth Balls And Retreaded” In the sixteenth Century there lived a political writer named Nicolo di Bernardo Machiavelli, remembered now for his satirical approach to politics. One of his maxims was that gov- ernments should not do anything worthwhile until just before an elec- tion period. Another was that cam- paign promises should never be fully met or lived up to and that some political tidbits should be saved for the next time. To Michiavelli a poli- tical promise was something like a tire: to be retreaded and used time and again. Political Figure In the twentieth century there lives a political figure who has taken the Michiavellian concepts to heart and has made them. the modus oper- endi and modus vivendi of the Tories. His name is John George Diefenbaker, P.C., Q.C., M.A., LL.BS LL.D. DEL. ERes: M.P., B.S. This Session’s Speech from the Throne indicates that many of those “goodies” which the Prime Minister dangled before the eyes of the gen- eral public a few years ago have been removed from the moth balls, given a “retread”, and again pro- ffered to us. All we have to do to get them is to vote for the Tories when election time rolls around. Irish Robber The point of all this is whether we can afford to have another four years of Toryism (historically Tory means an Irish bog robber) merely to have the same story repeated four or five years hence. Political machinations and distortions are O.K. as an exer- cise in the theory of politics, but it becomes very expensive when the welfare of 18 million people is in- volved. The Speech from the Throne We hare an excellent CLEANER for DENTAL PLATES DR. R. DowGtas Supply Co. Westminster ONE DOLLAR POSTPAID Cor. Granville MU, 1-4022 Vancouver 1, B.C. 712 Robson St. Suite 3 CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY IWA Gredit Unions and other Credit Unions supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C. Alberni District Credit Union, Head Office: 21] Argyle St., Port Al- berni, B.C. Alberni Branch; 280 Merrifield St., Alberni, B.C. IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10 IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street, New Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria Chemainus & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus Lake Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C. Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952, Courtenay Duncan & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan Prince George & District, 1046 - 4th Avenue, Prince George Nanaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo Ladysmith & District Credit Union, Box 154, Ladysmith, B.C. United Labour Credit Union, 1475 East 43rd, Vancouver Salmon Arm Credit Union, Shuswap Ave., Salmon Arm, B.C. mentioned quite a number of inter- esting and promising matters, which should appeal to a cross section of the general public. There are to be: Old Age Pension adjustments, Blind pension adjustments, Disabled pension adjustments, A National Power Grid, Senate reform, and Fattening of the Unemployment Insurance Fund to name a few of the items. As the Session progresses we will learn whether or not each of these matters is to be proceeded with or whether they are there merely to put “bulk” in the Throne Speech. Premier Bennett Premier Bennett in 1953 used the trick of introducing a number of Bills in the Legislature merely as en- ticements. Prime Minister Diefen- baker could easily engineer dissolu- tion and an election without having to put any of the Throne Speech proposals through the House. In all of this it is well to remember that the Tory government has never yet fulfilled all of the promises it has made via Throne Speeches. Is there any reason to believe that it will be different this year? Company Pleads Poverty About 350 workers in a CLC- chartered Local at American Can Co. of Canada Ltd. are being press- ed by the company to give up a scheduled contract wage boost of 7 cents an hour. The firm claims it is in a business. tailspin. The workers have refused the company bid pending results on an inquiry by. the Canadian Labour Congress. But American Can em- ployees at Simcoe, Chatham and Montreal have voted to go along with the company position. C. J. MURDOCH Please Contact Jackson at Suite 6 855 Thurlow St. Vancouver 5, MU 4-6045 —Hal Vandervoort Photo Catholics Study Labour A report on the proceedings of the 9th Annual Catholic Social Life Conference held in Halifax, Canada, dealing with the Conference’s main subject, “Industrial Relations Seventy Years After Rerum Novarum”, con- tains a wealth of material on labour in the world today. The keynote address was given by Most Reverend F. A. Marrocco, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, He based his text on the four major encyclicals issued by four great Popes — Leo XII, Pius XI, Pius XII and John XXIll—over the 70- year period. Early Analyses It is most interesting to note that the early analyses of economic and social problems were prophetic of the disorders and social injustices prevalent today, For example, Pius XI stated the basic problem as “im- mense power and despotic domina- tion are concentrated in the hands of a few... This accumulation of power, the characteristic note of the modern economic order is a natural result of limitless free competition, which permits the survival of those only who are strongest, which often means those who fight most relent- lessly, who pay least heed to the dic- tates of conscience.” The report abounts in apt refer- ences from the four encyclicals, to- gether with appropriate comments from the speakers. It is significant that while times have changed, the basic problems remain in both old and new forms. Other Contributors Among other contributors to the conference whose names are known to trade unionists were Prof. G. E. Clarke, Rev. Girard Dion, Arthur Maloney, Rev. C. E. McGuire and Jim MacDonald, This report is worthwhile reading by anyone interested in a critical examination of industrial relations in modern society. Copies are available from Rev. Peter A. Nearing, Director, Social Action Department, Canadian Cath- olic Conference, 90 Parent Avenue, Ottawa. !